Madonna and Child

ca. 1505 (Renaissance)

60.2 cm 85.9 cm 1.1 cm

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Against a tranquil landscape, the Madonna sits upon a rock with the active Christ Child on her knee. The pyramidal composition, bold chiaroscuro (contrasts of light and dark), and hazy definition of the contours are evocative of the work of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). The C...

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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1881 catalogue: no. 45; 1897 catalogue: no. 89, as Luca da Cortona]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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